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Identifier: birdsofbritishis00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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d the range, but it is as likely that they were south-bound autumnal emigrants that had miscalculated the winddirection and weather conditions. The feather-denuded rough skin round the base of the billof the adult Rook, the slender and less curved beak, blue sheenand voice are characters which distinguish it from the Carrion,but in the young bird, until a year old, the nostrils are clothedwith bristles and the chin feathered. At all ages, however, thefeathers of the flanks hang loosely, giving the bird a moreragged, skirted appearance round the thighs than the Crow. The Rook is a sociable bird, amiably consorting with theJackdaw, which joins it in the fields and the winter roosts andoccasionally at the rookery. In the fields the Rook follows theplough, walking erect, with sedate, slightly rolling gait, andwith occasional short flights to the heels of the ploughman.The morning and evening flights, from and to the rookery orroost, are familiar to all; with steady, regular wing-beats and
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I //. 6. Nest of Magpie. C 26.

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